Share a Photo to Help Connect the Dots on Climate

On May 5th, join the NWF, 350.org and partners across the globe in connecting the dots between climate change, changes in extreme weather, and the impacts to local habitats and wildlife. With your help, we will begin collecting images that show the impacts of global warming and motivate people to take political action in the fight for the future of wildlife.

Record hot days and heat waves are becoming more likely now that the U.S. surface temperature has increased about 2°F over the last 50 years, even more than the warming averaged for the whole planet.

Night-time temperatures have shown a particularly striking upward trend, worsening heat stress in plants and wildlife that don’t have a chance to cool down.

Sea-surface temperatures are increasing in the main development area for tropical storms in the North Atlantic, leading to more intense hurricanes.

Winter weather from year to year is yo-yoing between record snowfalls and unusually mild conditions.

You can help connect the dots between weather extremes that are part of the pattern of intensifying weather caused by climate change. Just create a “dot” make out of cardboard, or people, a bike wheel or anything else in a place that is impacted by weather extremes, or that shows a solution to global warming.

Use our examples or your own creative ideas to decide where to take your photo — either of something impacted by extreme weather or a solution.

Form a dot — out of plants, cardboard, people — anything!

Take a handful of photos!

Email each photo one at a time to alerts@nwf.org with the name of the photographer, location and description of what is in the photo!

By emailing the photo to alerts@nwf.org, you are donating the image to the National Wildlife Federation for use in furthering its mission. Donors retain ownership of their photos to use them as they wish, and grant NWF, its subsidiaries, affiliates and partners an irrevocable non-exclusive license to reproduce, publish, circulate or otherwise use the photographs howsoever in any medium now in existence or to be established, throughout the world in perpetuity. NWF greatly appreciates all image donations.

We look forward to seeing your photos that help “Connect the Dots” between extreme weather and climate change.